I'm an Emmy-winning former NBC and Wall Street Journal reporter turned speaker and strategist on quotability, connective behavior and making places and conferences more meaningful by storyboarding them. I’ve been a state senator’s chief of staff, co-founder of nine PACs, founding board member of Annie’s Homegrown and coached over 30 pre-IPO teams. Like you, perhaps, I am inordinately curious about why we do what we do. I also write for the Huffington Post and Harvard Business Review and am the author of Moving From Me to We, Resolving Conflict Sooner, Walk Your Talk and Getting What You Want. Let's share ideas at www.sayitbetter.com, Moving From Me to We and @kareanderson

For starters, see what your phone use can tell you about your life, compared to others, by downloading the free mobile app for your smart phone or iPad. As Frans Johansson suggests, serendipitously discover commonalities and perhaps even spark an idea about how you want to change your life, or share it with others or create an app that leverages off of what you learn here. As the project partners promise, “Map your daily footprint, share what brings you luck, and get a glimpse into the one thing people want to experience during their lifetime.”

The bonus benefit? For the first 50,000 app downloads, the project donates $1 to charity: water.

I can see the collaborative brains churning at Quantified Self and shareable so we won’t be surprised about the unexpected way the rapidly growing and evolving body of insights gathered here may scale.

Finally a Human Face for Our Big Data

As more people share, and share more, we will trigger the Law of Unintended Consequences.

In continuously morphing patterns, Individual’s beliefs and even behaviors will change as we participants are influenced by the power of social proof, viewing what many others feel and do. What an evocative and innately human way to see the power of easily accessible, visual Big Data to change collective behavior on a large scale.

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The Human Face of Big Data project hosted a worldwide experiment via a mobile app: users mapped their daily footprint through GPS, shared pictures of what brings them luck, and get a glimpse into the one thing people want to experience during their lifetime. Project leader Rick Smolan believes “big data” can be used to solve big problems. For example, your smartphone is collecting a lot of data on a daily basis as Quantified Self users know well. Project volunteers provide demographic information through a series of questions. Throughout the week, the smartphone’s sensors kept a log of how far people traveled, how fast, and where they were going. Smolan, “believes that big data will have a more transforming effect than the internet itself.” http://www.experientia.com/blog/human-face-of-big-data/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PuttingPeopleFirst+%28Putting+People+First%29

Learning about others through the stories of @humanfaceofbigdata I find myself wanting more. How can we understand collective behaviors that spur innovation? What hidden behavioral cues should we recognize so we can work better together? Looking forward to this discussion @emcworld when @kareanderson and @hbarnekow explore these topics Women of World special event.

Thank you for pairing me with such an extraordinary, globally-oriented woman as @hbarnekow Sheryl, as I truly look forward to learning with her and you together as we plan and deliver this session. In an increasingly connected yet complex world those who will attract the most opportunity and friendship, as you well know,hone three traits: their top talent, capacity to collaborate with people extremely different than them and their ability to be quotable so others actually hear their ideas and want to respond to them….. that’s, in part, why learning connective cues is vital. It also enables us to lead the kind of adventure story that we are each meant to live :-)

As with the movement of time, big data marches forward. The Human Face of Big Data Book is now available. With formats available as hard copy or iPad app users will be able to to interact and explore stories from the book, including videos, interactive charts and graphics. EMC through Jeremy Burton’s leadership distributed over ensured over 10,000 copies are being delivered to global influencers around the world, including: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, UK Prime Minister David Cameron, King Juan Carlos of Spain, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, Actor Robin Williams, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Warren Buffett, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Oprah Winfrey and Jane Goodall. FUN!